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Whether or not customs officials intercept a package may be a matter of luck, but when I recently imported 3 bottles of liquid baclofen from Virtuous Labs, my package had a label across the outside saying "Opened by Australia Post for inspection by Customs". Inside was a leaflet saying more or less the same thing, including "Customs and Border Protection found nothing of concern in your parcel or letter and did not remove any items".
I'm now unsure of where I stand regarding this issue. Had I read the paragraph on the above-mentioned website, I probably would not have tried to import the baclofen at all, yet having it passed as being ok by customs seems to contradict that. All I can say is that there seems to be a grey area of law regarding all of this.
If anyone else can shed light on this I'd be interested in hearing your opinion.
(Note: The Virtuous Labs baclofen is labelled as being for research purposes only and not for human use, so that could have been why the package was allowed through. Not sure what they would have done if it had been a package of baclofen tablets that were obviously made for human consumption).
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